Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ivory tower, she was not thinking of the millions who scuttle like rats and whiz like rocketing atoms through the subways of the world's great cities. The oldest of these subways are the dismalest: Boston's system, built in 1897, and Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit (1904) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (1913). Those most conducive to human sanity are the clean, well-lighted neatly tubular "undergrounds" of London and Buenos Aires. Proudest and most ornate is the three-year-old Moscow Metro...
Pennsylvania Power & Light and Lehigh Valley Transit Co. are subsidiaries of Lehigh Power Securities Corp. (which is in turn a subsidiary of National Power & Light Co., an Electric Bond & Share Co. affiliate). Although Pennsylvania Power already had contracts for emergency power from three other power companies and even from Bethlehem Steel, in 1928 it leased from Lehigh Valley Transit for $500,000 a year a turbo-generating plant at the corner of Front & Linden streets in Allentown. To date $4,300,000 has been paid for the rental of this emergency plant and in nine years it has been used...
...Having worked in the U. S. since 1926, making change in subway stations and selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America, a healthy C.I . 0. affiliate which this summer signed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. to its first closed shop contract. Unionist Quill, who wears a shamrock stickpin and estimates that 80% of his transport workers are fellow Irishmen, jokes: "It took the labor movement of America to bring the Irish people together...
...transit gloria mundi," or so is the bubble of the Cambridge collegian pricked by the witty caustic observer from Smith who next chooses Yale as the place and the Yale man as the subject...
...transit...